![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike A Visit From the Goon Squad, we dedicate most of our time to a small cast of characters and come to rely on the natural ease with which Egan reveals their faults, virtues, and idiosyncrasies. Egan’s newest book, Manhattan Beach, is delightfully and unapologetically a novel. Her joyfully frenetic A Visit From the Goon Squad carried an enormous cast of characters across half a century, featured an entire chapter in Microsoft PowerPoint, and defied conventions of both the short story collection and the infinitely more marketable novel, despite its classification as the latter. In 2012, she published her short story “Black Box” through the New Yorker’s Twitter account. If readers have come to expect anything of Jennifer Egan, they’ve learned to anticipate her versatility, inventiveness, and penchant for surprise. ![]()
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